Jan Heine comes along and posts his observations on his Japan travels. God bless him, we are not going to shoot the messenger here, but the upshot is the Japanese are serious randonneurs, city bikers, racers and all kinds of things. They are making and have been making some really fine bicycles with distinctive innovations and deviations from what we think of as the "norm" here. They are certainly no slaves to using a particular manufacturer's "group" These are not your father's Nishikis.
I started looking at some of the bicycle builders mentioned in Jan's articles (Hirose, Toei, Grand Bois, ...) and was stunned. One of the best examples is here at General Works<http://www.generalworks.com/toeisha/photo/photo_t5001_eg.html> . Seriously. Custom rear derailleur braise ons. Custom front dérailleur braise ons. Hub area rack. Internal cables. Tire (actually rim) friction dynamo that looks like it might work. Braised on rear lamp mounting. Much more. I am going to extend my next Japan business trip to doing some bicycle shop visitations and hopefully make some time to ride with people there and hear what they think. Respectfully Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
